SEC CHAIR PAUL ATKINS JUST WENT NUCLEAR ON XRP & CRYPTO (BULLISH!)

Added: 2026-04-30

[00:00:00]The SEC just dropped a nuke on the XRP community that we need to address because it's extremely exciting to see the shift happening right now uh from the SEC. And although yes, we're still waiting on clarity, we're still waiting on you know that fullon regulatory clarity for the entire space, XRP has the highest level of clearance at this point. like there's nothing really holding XRP back besides the idea that oh yeah, crypto still needs clarity. Um XRP still needs to be a lot more liquid, but beyond that, like there really isn't much else to wait for with XRP. And I feel like that's why we're starting to see some uh significant traction behind like the ETFs. I think that that's also why we're still starting to see a lot of major announcements from Ripple as well with some major institutional players to utilize blockchain and digital assets. I think it's because XRP already has that clearance. Now, we're going to talk about that. But first off, I want to say uh welcome to the channel everyone. For those that are new to the channel, welcome in. For those that are, you know, still an OG in the community, I just want to say thank you guys for the continuous support. I do appreciate all of you. Uh now, I will say right now, I do hope everybody has been enjoying the overall start of the week. I know that the market isn't really giving us what we want when it comes back to Bitcoin. We're at about 76.3K and this is definitely putting a damper on the old coin side of the market. Uh we did hit resistance and I've been talking about it in the Discord as well.

[00:01:46]You know, for anyone that wants to join up on the Discord, I do advise all of you to uh check it out at least get the 7-day trial cancel if you guys don't like it. But you know the main thing that we're looking at here is that we are in bearish divergence on Bitcoin.

[00:01:59]Everyone was screaming moon moon. But you know momentum was already dying down. So we kind of expected a sell-off.

[00:02:05]And I will probably start um to really kind of analyze this a little bit more in depth later. Uh but just the main point here is that yes, we are having a selloff. It's probably going to be a lot deeper. Um it's going to probably shake a little bit more of the tree a bit, but for the most part like I'm not too concerned with this. XRP will probably hit around like a$131, maybe even get a nice wick down to like a$127 or so uh before we get that continuation. So, just kind of, you know, be coolheaded here. You know, just know that on the macro side of things, like on the weekly and even on the monthly, you know, XRP looks bottomed out, Bitcoin looks bottomed out. Um, I'm not too really concerned at all about like the market in terms of like the bottoming structure or anything like that. Um, but also we do have a very, very exciting week ahead because of XRP Las Vegas. We do have Good Morning Las Vegas. Great week ahead for crypto and even XRP. Glad we could add to the skyline. And yeah, I mean, XRP has been pretty much everywhere in Las Vegas, which is awesome to see. I mean, it's just incredible to look at this. And uh, yeah, raise the standard.

[00:03:12]XRP is the standard. Always has been the standard. And this is just an awesome site to see. And obviously, like, is this going to change anything? Is this going to pump the price of XRP? No. I think that way too many people try to find some sort of catalyst behind any major event to have like the price of these assets like pump. And I just think that that's just like a very wrong way of looking at things. Um, I think that this event is going to be great to get some insights into what's really happening behind the scenes, what's going to lead to that positive price action for XRP. And, you know, that's what I'm actually watching for um, at this point. But, let's actually take a quick look into what's happening here with the SEC. So, recently going back onto April 20th, Paul Atkins did post this video clip here. Uh, I want to go over what Brad Garlinghouse stated at first and then I want to go into what Paul Atkins stated it. So we have here that the SEC's first mission is to protect investors. Under Gary Gendler, the SEC clearly lost its way. He declared war on a technology. It was an unlawful power grab and the court said as much. By comparison, Paul Atkins is a breath of fresh air and sanity. He is a model of what leadership at the SEC should look like. He's focusing on what matters, protecting investors and fostering innovations that help those investors and the markets. Now, we do have over here from Paul Atkins. When I took office one year ago, I promised a new day at the SEC, and we've delivered with our agenda to restore regulatory clarity, strengthen competitiveness, and accelerate innovation. We are making sure the US remains the world's strongest and safest place to invest.

[00:04:52]Check it out.

[00:04:53]>> We've made huge progress. I think I promised a a new day at the SEC um when I came aboard and we have we've pivoted from the old practice of regulation through enforcement and the opakeness of the agency as it for example with crypto as you uh mentioned that was job one to uh to focus on that and so basically we're instituting a strategy that I'm calling our act strategy advance clarify and transform so advance meaning modernization of our approach. So rather than fending off uh uh new innovative types of uh technologies, we're embracing them and so to make them so that we'll bring them from offshore where people fled to come back to the United States to to uh really work on their uh uh their products. And then second to clarify things SEC was very opaque as to how it would approach crypto and and other things. We've clarified it with the CFTC. We had an interpretative release to with focusing on defining tokenized securities versus uh other digital assets and our commodities and finally to transform to focus on making our rulebook fit for purpose so that we can then make IPOs great again.

[00:06:11]>> So yeah, I mean obviously Paul Atkins and the SEC are 100% committed to this.

[00:06:16]Uh they have shifted their entire focus, their agenda, everything and this is awesome. Now we think about what Paul Atkins is saying here. And they just dropped some new updates. Let's start off with of course this one. Justin, the SEC chair Paul Atkins says crypto and blockchain innovation will strengthen the US economy and financial system. And yeah, it definitely will. Obviously, we still need to, you know, see a few things like clarity get passed through.

[00:06:46]And then we need to start to see the utility side of the market actually being utilized in a big way. After that, then we could start to see crypto really be, you know, fully integrated and utilized on the actual financial system.

[00:07:02]Uh because I I I really do think that like the main thing here is that blockchain is going to replace those traditional rails. It's going to be basically the new rails that the financial system is running on. But on top of that, we also got an update from the SEC, which was this. The SEC has finally shifted the goalpost after years of relentless lawsuits against the broader industry and specifically targeting XRP. Their latest staff guidance now formally categorizes these assets as digital commodities. Reality is finally catching up. The SEC now officially recognizes these 16 assets as digital commodities. And we do know that XRP was included in this. We talked about these um you know assets as well.

[00:07:45]We talked about this document specifically and this is definitely a very very bullish one because again we're seeing that clear uh guidance regarding what is and what isn't a digital commodity or security and we know that these are not securities. XRP is not a security alongside all of those other assets including even Hore. Now, I bring this up because we got another big update from the SEC, and this is from Ze Crypto. The SEC just named XRP as an eligible asset. The NYC Arca's new rule proposal lists Bitcoin, Ethereum, Salana, and XRP as qualified assets for commodity trust. At least 85% of holdings must be in approved assets like these. The club just got smaller, and XRP made the list. Yeah. four assets, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Salana, XRP, they are now listed as qualified assets for commodity trust alongside the idea that XRP is now labeled as a digital commodity.

[00:08:46]The guidance is very clear here and this is also strengthening the role of XRP in the sense of we have clarity on XRP being that digital commodity. It's no longer any sort of question regarding oh is it a security or not. This is giving the green light to major players to tap in. But again, some of them might still be left on the sidelines waiting for clarity because they are still concerned about, you know, just the regulatory structure of crypto. But on top of that, we do also have over here from Bitcoin 2026. Justin Poin says that the US is taking a new approach by embracing innovation and advancing the president's push to bring digital asset activity on shore. This is also another very big update from Paul Atkins and the SEC because they are now trying to make sure that digital asset activity stays within the US. Now, is it only going to stay in the US? No. Like that's not going to be the case. But majority of it can definitely happen in the US. Like the US could be a major leader here, but it's going to take way more than just the SEC being very, very pro- crypto. We still need clarity. So, Congress needs to get the ball rolling, which by the way, Paul Atkins did mention as well, like he said, like Congress needs to start pushing forward here. Like, we can't wait any longer. Uh, but on top of that, we do have over here from Chartner TA.

[00:10:06]Probably nothing. The SEC chair Paul Atkins just made a massive statement.

[00:10:11]Distributed ledger technology for me is the most exciting aspect about all of this. Open the gates clarity. Check it out.

[00:10:19]Blockchain for me is the uh distributed ledger technology for me is the most exciting uh aspect about all this. So I I hesitate to say it at a Bitcoin conference, but you know I'm basically agnostic as to the actual uh tokens themselves and whatnot and may the markets uh you know decide what's best.

[00:10:40]But the the prospect of having uh you know T0 what we say instantaneous settlement for many instruments it probably won't work for everything but to re have that uh delivery versus payment receipt versus payment immediacy um onchain I think is the most exciting to derisk our financial system because every second that you have a difference between the transaction time and then uh clearance and settlement is a risk. risk uh that uh you know the investor and you know both parties bear. So anyway, so we're out to you know uh try to foster that to enable that to happen here in the United States. There are a lot of incumbent players uh all with the current exchanges and everything else.

[00:11:27]But we want to make this open to them too. They this is a way for them to derisk their own uh markets. And then there are great ideas out there from all sorts of other uh you know people who on the cryptonative uh you know blockchain native community. So we want to let all these different flowers bloom and so may it will just strengthen the United States as a marketplace for ideas and for financial innovation and that's better for the world. it's better for consumers, investors, um, and our economy as a whole, I think. So, that's that's what we're out to do.

[00:12:07]>> I >> So, yeah, I mean, obviously the SEC is extremely pro crypto. They are now telling us like, hey, DT is the most exciting aspect around all this because this could power the new rails of the new financial system, T plus Z. Like, yeah, everything he's talking about here. And I love the idea that he said like, "Oh, I'm, you know, hesitant to say this at like a Bitcoin conference, but like he's he's also aware that it's not just about Bitcoin. Like it's not like yeah, sure, Bitcoin can have its stay in the market, but I don't think that Bitcoin is going to be that number one dominant cryptocurrency forever."

[00:12:45]And it takes me back to, you know, Lauren Beliv's statement, which if you guys don't know, she's the head of US policy at Ripple. She stated something very similar. And big shout out to RZ XRP for including this video under uh Chartner TA's video clip. Uh but this is actually from the future of finance 2026 this year. And this is Lauren telling you basically the same exact thing.

[00:13:08]Check it out.

[00:13:09]>> So a lot of people are holding and investing into Bitcoin. Bitcoin is really a savings token. Ripple utilizes a token called the XRP token. That is a utility token. That is a utility token.

[00:13:22]So a lot of people >> So yeah, I do agree with the statement like Bitcoin for most people like they are looking at Bitcoin as digital gold like oh I could just make money off of you know the other assets in the space and I can just park that money into Bitcoin. Sure you could look at it like that but the main bread and butter here I really think that the bread and butter in crypto is going to be XRP. I think, you know, XRP and assets similar to XRP, like utility based networks and assets that have those efficiencies to move money at, you know, certain amounts of speed and at certain fractions of a penny in terms of cost and things like that. Like those efficiencies are going so unnoticed right now because everyone just thinks like, oh, like no, like that doesn't matter at all. Like the technology, who cares about it? We just invest into what's going to make us money and that's it. But like you got to think about this space in the span of like what's going to be around in 3 years, what's going to be around in 5 years, 10 years. Like it's going to be the assets that are mentioned in these documents that are getting that clearance from the SEC. But then you also have to think about like all right, well, what do you what do these institutional players um you know want?

[00:14:27]What are they looking at? Where they're parking their money? And XRP has a ton of institutional capital behind it. Uh but on top of that like we look at this and yeah I I come back to the idea that like utility is going to be the next major driver in this market. Like that's the next phase of crypto. It's not hype and speculation. It's not oh hey what memecoin you know looks the best like what what has like the best memecoin community like all that stuff. Sure it would have been great 5 years ago but we're now in 2026 and the time is definitely changing. I could tell you guys right now that the crypto market today compared to five years ago, six years ago, it's completely different. This is a completely different environment. Um the market is becoming a lot more mature.

[00:15:16]We're starting to see institutional players lining up. Like people might say like, "Oh yeah, we've been hearing that institutional players are going to adopt crypto. We're going to see mass institutional adoption. We've been hearing that for years and years and years." Yeah, we also have been hearing that we're going to see regulations for crypto. And guess what? We're now starting to actually see that show up.

[00:15:34]We're also starting to see institutional players coming out and launching products. We just talked about it in a recent video where Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab, all these massive tradey giants, they're launching products based around crypto. Banks launching stable coins. Like, guys, I understand it's very easy to get caught up in the whole idea of like, oh yeah, we've been hearing it. We've been hearing it, but where's the price action, right? But if you actually look at what's happening, like this these things are really happening right now. We're just waiting for price action. And I know that it sucks waiting for price action, but we also just witnessed a major rise in the market. Like, believe it or not, yes, XRP did a very good run from the lows of 2022 to the high pre previously, which was an 11x gain. Now, do I think that XRP is done? No. In fact, I think that it just cooled off. I think RSI is now bottoming out. And I think that we're starting to build for the next major move here. And the next major move here, in my opinion, is going to be very exciting because yes, I do think that it's going to be fueled by the possibility of, you know, having full-on clarity as well as institutionalization of crypto becoming a real driver this year. So, with that being said, I hope that you guys enjoyed this video. If you guys did leave a like, subscribe notifications on more free content. You guys more follow me on Twitter and join the free discord on description below.

[00:16:58]And with that being said, guys, been Nick. Thanks for watching. Peace out, guys.